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Empty City” investigates the fractured urbanism of San Francisco, Las Vegas and the road in between. As in our experiences of these places, events occur in fragments, via unexpected juxtapositions, and are often gone before they have fully arriv...

Our friend Rebecca Solnit asked us to lend our visualization skills to a pressing and dangerous problem: the nature of the relationship between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. We worked ...

Good-looking maps used to be the domain of experts. That’s been changing quite a bit in the last few years, and it’s easier than ever now for developers to access mapping data. Never content to leave well enough alone, we thought we’d...

Stamen was invited to speak at the Jet Propulsion Lab for Data Visualization from Design to Discovery. We were thrilled to be onstage alongside ...

This is a visualization of a day’s worth of trading data on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In the examples that follow, each of which represents a single minute of trading, the images on top use a unique color to represent each trader, and the i...

Historically, workers have lived in residential suburbs while commuting to work in the city. For Silicon Valley, however, the situation is reversed: Many of the largest technology companies are based in suburbs but look to recruit younger knowledg...

For almost two decades, Stamen has been exploring cartography with our clients and in research. These maps are presented here for your enjoyment and use wherever you display OpenStreetMap data. What we made Ther...

We worked with MIG on the OneBayArea interactive map, which shows approximately how far you can get from any point in the Bay Area by car, public transit, bike, or on foot, at particular times of the day. You can filter your view by the travel tim...